Tokyo: Age is not just a number but also the driving force in the search for Abdullah Alrashidi to do things that rarely win the Olympic medal in 58 and striking activities as a shooting in a sports exhibition wearing a FC Arsenal shirt.
On Monday, seven times Olympian claimed a bronze medal at the men’s scene and immediately after doing what was not much in the history of the Olympics, promised to go for gold in 2024 Paris, at that time he would become sexagenarians.
, “I am 58 years old.
I was the oldest shooter and a bronze medal worth more than gold for me.
I am very happy for this medal, but I hope, at the next Olympics, a gold medal.
Paris!” He told Olympic information services in the range of photos of Asaka.
“I wasn’t lucky enough to win a gold medal, but I was happy with the bronze medal and, with God’s help, I hope the next Olympics, Paris 2024, I have a gold medal.
I will be 61 years old there and I’ll shoot two shows.
Skeet and trap.
“Great Vincent Hancock gave the United States Sweep after becoming the first skeet shooter to win three gold medals.
But it was a shooter from Kuwait who was a trend at the end of their final.
Alrashidi, who started the Olympic trip in Atlanta 1996, shot 46 in the sixth final to get bronze.
Jesper Hansen Danish settled silver with 55 points.
This is a second medal at the Olympics, after winning a bronze in the Rio 2016 game five years as an independent athlete, when he shot wearing a jersey from the famous English football club Arsenal FC after Kuwait was forbidden to participate in the Mega event by the International Olympic Committee (IOC).
On winning a medal as an independent athlete in Rio 2016 and won this in Tokyo 2020 representing Kuwait, he said, “(in Rio) I am happy with a bronze medal but I am not happy because there is no flag for Kuwait.” If you look at the ceremony, my head was revealed.
I don’t like to see the Olympic flag.
I need my flag, Kuwait flag.
And today, you see me, I’m happy when I see my flag and it’s a second medal at the Olympics and I hope, the next Olympics, gold medal.
“” Because this is the second medal at the Olympics, I am very happy.
This is Olympics No.7.
Before when I shot, I was nervous, I can’t shoot, I can’t relax, and now I’m relaxed.
“He was also accompanied by the child’s child, Talal, in the Tokyo match.” This is my second time and my child shot at the Olympics.
My son shot a trap.
“And I have another son who shot Skeet with me.
Now we are both from my family at the Olympics.
I’m happy.
Next time, I hope, four.” In the secret of his long life, he said, “Because everyone loves me.
I am easy with everyone.
I like everyone.
If he is fine with me or not good with me, I don’t need anyone like me.
I need all People like me.
I need everyone to love me.
This is my life.
And everyone loves me because I am old and world champion three times.
“When asked about competing with the 23-year-old Kallioinen Eetu to Finland, who wasn’t even born when Kuwait appeared His first Olympics in 1996, in the final, Alrashidi said, “I see it like this is my child.
I am happy, but I want to fight to win because I am an old man, but I am still strong.”
Olympic medal in 58, Age drive Alrashidi to do rare things
